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No. 1302416

I'm planning to go to Korea on a work assignment option next year, but looking at videos like this one has me genuinely worried.

How bad are things for foreign women in Korea? Anyone have any experience?

No. 1302419

Why would anyone go to Korea, when they could choose to go to Japan?

No. 1302433

Koreas are a lot more open with being xenophobic than other asian countries. When my friends studied or worked there the least you could expect was them talking shit about you and mocking you (while talking right in your face) in Korean, thinking you don't speak it. Some are smarter and would talk crap behind your back, but it's still the same. Some of them would still insist to not talk to you (even if you speak Korean too) because you are not korean. I would beware of their fuckboys if I were you, a lot of men there are trying to manipulate you to brag about fucking someone who is not from Korea.
Also I sincerely hope you did not buy into "Hostess work" in South Korea, because you won't get your working visa and it'll be a brothel in a disguise. (Usually they spam russians on their social media or whatsapp with a suggestion to get a job in SK with a room to live in, claiming you will be getting money for just talking to your customers as if you are on a date in a "fancy restaurant ".) This trafficing problem is still huge there.

No. 1302440

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What a shithole, no wonder everything about Korea is so manufactured and fake. They're hiding the true shit hole state of the country.

No. 1302444

Korean career women leave South Korea and go to China because there's actually less of a glass ceiling in mainland China than there is in Korea.

That should give you an idea of how bad the country is for women. The recent government was also essentially elected in part based on MRA agitation against how supposedly "feminist" South Korea is.

The notion of Korean guy being kind and romantic is just a lie. There's no such romance culture in Korea prior to the arrival of western culture. What you seen in k-dramas is just a localization of romance. It's a fantasy. It doesn't exist in the reality. Don't believe it. Korean men are horrible and the K-pop craze has only made them more arrogant.

No. 1302453

>>1302444
No wonder Korean English teaching jobs are considered the bottom of the barrel. Japan and even China are preferred in every way by anyone who knows anything about the situation.

No. 1302469

>>1302419
begone weeb

No. 1302496

Check every toilet and changing room before you use it as spycams are very common there.

No. 1302518


No. 1302619

>>1302518
nta but wow that site is tough to look at aesthetics wise. Also the users there are worse than the ones here
no thanks

No. 1302629

Don’t go.

No. 1302640

Just stick to your tourist spots, be in a group, have some sort of guide, like a friend who is korean native. Pretend to be filming/live streaming a lot.
>>1302496
You wouldn’t even know where to look or what they look like… I would avoid places that clearly have almost exclusively female foot traffic. So use unisex restrooms.

No. 1302641

>>1302619
Was this the site that was created after kpop was banned from here

No. 1302719

>>1302416
One of my friend worked in Korea for years. Her co-workers called her fat and ugly everyday at work in front of her and she is a translator. Men have absolutely no shame there.

No. 1302730

>>1302416
i would not go there is you are fat or black. not race bait, just the unfortunate truth. even if they would not be rude to your face they would behind your back. beauty standards are overwhelmingly high for their natives nevermind foreigners. why do you think girls get plastic surgery for graduation presents and the only famous fat women are gag women? it is sad so many girls will want to live and visit because of kpop and kdramas.
>>1302720
likely not a lie anon… i bet you are a koreaboo

No. 1302731

>>1302726
yeah but hapa children who will likely be bullied at school for being hapa

No. 1302735

>>1302726
that is not worth it at all

No. 1302738

>>1302726
i bet your only knowledge of korea are dramas if you are not being sarcastic and retarded

No. 1302751

>>1302726
This was post by someone with a scrotum or at the very least a bad porn brainrot

No. 1302752

>>1302726
Wouldn't having white children be better? Given how much Koreans of either sex worship Eurocentric features it sounds like hapas would be a downgrade for the woman but an upgrade for the man

No. 1302754

it’s good for short term (1-2 years), korea has really fun night life, everything is convenient and well thought out, and there’s a bunch of interesting places you could visit
but it’s absolute hell if you’re planning on living here long term. don’t ever start a family with a korean scrote. even the biggest koreaboos end up hating korea and especially korean scrotes after living here for some time. so beware. also housing is unaffordable af and the education system here sucks. honestly kinda regret getting my bachelors degree there sometimes. at least it was fun and i was able to gain experience abroad though

No. 1302755

>>1302752
>hapa
stop using that word. it only refers to hawaiians. i fucking hate americabs.

No. 1302758

OP here. Did anyone else go through a phase where, perhaps because of the influence of kpop and dramas, they used to feel a lot of empathy for how Asian men in the west were made to feel emasculated? I remember I got involved with a few weird communities in that time, online of course, and they had a lot of Asian guys who, looking back on it, were basically just angry misogynists grifting and begging for pity and sympathy on the basis of racism.

I'm not sure what came over me back then but I cringe looking back on it. Appreciate the replies. I'd like to go to Korea just for the experience but I don't think I'd date a Korean guy. But also, it feels like it's impossible to date expat guys when you're over there too.

No. 1302759

>>1302755
> hapa
> someone who has one Hawaiian or East Asian parent and one white parent

No. 1302762

Beware with molka and cults. English teaching jobs are not worth it, they're koreaboo's last hope and everyone acts accordingly. If you're chasing an actual chance with an actual company for a professional job/a bachelors degree i would say go for it. If you're going just because you want an adventure or a change in your life then you will find yourself in a lot of shitty situations. Only think about it if you're white and skinny thought, anything else is a bad idea. Korean scrotes are the bottom of the barrel, you will find soon why radfems are 10 times worse there than in the west.

No. 1302765

>>1302762
> Only think about it if you're white and skinny thought, anything else is a bad idea.
exactly, some people think this is racebait by saying this but it is literally the truth.

No. 1302768

>>1302416
If you're planning on being an English teacher, stay away from Hagwons. I used to be subscribed to this black woman who went to korea as an english teacher and she got a real reality check when she went to a hagwon. The experience sounded so horrible. She said that she felt like an indentured servant, these korean parents didn't hide the fact that they hated her. She saw a kid attempt suicide by trying to jump out of a window whilst she was teaching a lesson, the kids are violent as fuck, so many of them would grab scissors and try to cut her, they work you to death with barely any bathroom breaks & lunch breaks. The pay is unliveable, teachers aren't allowed to tell off the students or even give advice to the students parents on how they could work with their child because you'd become an 'enemy' to them. One teacher was made to get on her knees and apologise to a student because she told him off for something he did during class. The teachers also ate the kids leftovers. She said she had to leave korea before she could make a video on it because these guys will sue you for it. All the students at this hagwon were rich kids, the sons & daughters of top doctor, celebrities, actors etc. There was a celebrities wife who she claimed was insane & had a weird hate-boner towards one of the korean teachers, she kept threatening to sue her because the teacher told her son off for misbehaving in class. They had to hide the teacher at the back of the school till she left.

No. 1302769

>>1302768
> subscribed to this black woman who went to korea
sorry but this just proves all of the stuff said above. it is the sad truth

No. 1302771

>>1302765
if you go on korean forums like dcinside (and even female only forums, so it’s not just scrotes who think like that) 90% of people literally refer to black people as gorillas lmao at this point any black person who willingly moves to korea must hate themselves

No. 1302773

>>1302759
this is not what east asians call themselves. americans used the hawaiian term and changed the definition. koreans don't use that term.

No. 1302775

>>1302771
I mean it's not like they have any respect for white women either. They just see them as attractive sluts. Don't mean that offensively, just saying that Korean men's approval doesn't mean shit.

No. 1302777

>>1302773
even so that is literally the definition whether they call themselves it or not
>>1302775
yeah but being seen as attractive is alot better than being loathed for your race. why do you think korean girls have eyelid surgery and want pale skin? i just pity any other non asian girls who want to move to korea

No. 1302780

>>1302775
Don't be this autistic, at least they see skinny white woman akin as people. The level of disgust they feel to anything dark skinned is incomprehensible. Their hate is violent and a danger to your integrity. Even dark skinned koreans would tell you so.

No. 1302786

it is always funny how much Korean women love pale white men who are often seen as average in western countries. I've seen videos online of these kind of men shown on Korean tv and stuff and they go crazy for them. it is just different beauty/attractiveness standards
>>1302780
exactly, some just don't want to accept the reality of this

No. 1302788

>>1302752
They like lightness/eurocentric features not white people.

No. 1302791

>>1302777
>>1302780
I think it's more that a lot of us don't really care what Korean men think of us because we're not enormously attracted to their facial features… It's just surprising to me you view being seen as an "easy girl" as an enviable position.

No. 1302793

>>1302788
It's irrelevant. They prefer foreign racial features to their own so by their own admission the white woman is downgrading the appearance of her children.

No. 1302794

>>1302780
exactly, women like miranda kerr and other pale female celebs are worshipped
>>1302788
anyone but black or brown people then lol
>>1302791
yeah but these kpop stans would do anything to be desirable for those kind of men

No. 1302796

>>1302791
If you're going to Korea then it does matter lol. If you compare the experiences of black/brown woman and white woman even if both are pretty lackluster it's like day and night. At the end of the day OP and anyone can do whatever they want but it doesn't change the fact that skin color is a factor in your experience

No. 1302884

>>1302793
It isn’t necessarily that they prefer those features, they just covet certain structures. They might want a taller nose or lighter skin but that doesn’t mean they want to look like a Caucasian or actually find them attractive. They don’t even find white peoples skin attractive as a whole, they don’t want to be pink they just want to be pale. They don’t respect foreigners and white women who go there thinking they’ll be popular just because they have blonde hair and blue eyes are the epitome of losers. They get pumped and dumped and rarely are they married. Chasing the attention of Korean men is so stupid.

No. 1302886

>>1302884
No one here wants to have sex with Korean men. They have statistically the tiniest penises on earth.

No. 1302899

>>1302886
Not my implication, just ranting about how that’s such a popular thing right now.

No. 1302981

>>1302884
If it's like Japan, they will get a lot of sexual harassment as well.

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No. 1303226

Why go to korea? sounds hellish as fuck

No. 1303246

>>1302886
they also have tiny tiny balls.

No. 1303252

I am interested in visiting Gangnam and Daegu because my friend said it was very cool but the molka scares me. She did tell me that the nightclubs weren’t recommended and Korean men will harass you there especially if you’re a foreigner since they think foreign women are whores.

No. 1303556

Eh, could be worse; at least it’s not the north.

No. 1303610

I would never visit Korea again. One of the most overrated countries in the world. Plus the food sucks. I think it’s deranged that so many nonnies want to visit

No. 1303730

>>1303610
>Plus the food sucks
Care to elaborate? All those mukbangs look so good but I wonder how all that food tastes like

No. 1303913

If you’re white, pale, skinny, don’t speak the language (so you can’t hear them talk shit about you), you’re gonna be treated like a goddess which is very jarring compared to your everyday life. It is very addicting and I can only imagine how women who are more beautiful are treated daily and then I understand why some of them (Irene from RV) have power trip scandals when Korea basically worships people that meet their standards. I’m speaking as a semi attractive whitey but I’ve also seen them go crazy for ugly ass white blonde scrotes as well.
One thing is to make sure you’re not alone and usually traveling in a group if possible. You also need to make sure you have a spycam detector, you can buy one on Amazon; you’ll also notice that there’s toilet paper in little holes wherever you pee because other women cover them up as well. Korean men are trash but if you do go, try to enjoy the food, sights, nature and protect yourself by any means necessary. Oh and be prepared to feel extremely talkative because people are so quiet there that they never say anything even when they bump directly into someone else. A lot of people (including some women) don’t wash their hands after using the restroom which shocked me.

No. 1303925

>>1303913
Samefag but also talk to english speaking Koreans if you can because hearing their insights and experiences are interesting. A lot of gyopos and Koreans who speak decent English due to foreign language exchanges that I talked to were 100% intent on moving somewhere outside of the Korea as soon as possible due to the work culture. If I could do it again I’d probably try to meet up with an English speaking Megal or radfem there.

No. 1304015

Reminds me of vidrel which I just saw the other day. She's Korean and lived in Canada for a bit, she said in Canada she never was touched inappropriately when going out but in Korea it happened every single day. She also says that Koreans have the "mind your own business" mentality, and will watch a guy shove a struggling drunk girl into his car without saying a word.

No. 1304025

I went a few years ago. If you're black, teens hanging out in groups will stare and laugh. I brushed it off but just a heads up. I don't know if some girls were shy or just mean but sometimes when I needed help finding a place they'd have this awful look on their face like they want me to fuck off (usually younger people, around my age at the time so late teens/early 20s). Some people were super helpful and kind too though.
>>1302496
Anon I still regularly think about a huge desperate dump I took as soon as I reached my hotel. I completely stripped because the weather was really hot. Spy cams were commonly reported in the news at the time and I still beat myself up for not checking thoroughly before shitting. It was a reputable hotel but you still never know what kind of workers they have, especially since I arrived on a package with other foreigner tourists.

No. 1304030

>>1303913
>A lot of people (including some women) don’t wash their hands after using the restroom which shocked me.
Reminds me of one of Onision’s old vlogs where he noticed some of the natives not washing their hands after using the toilet while based in Busan, and the child prostitutes that come by and offer sex (of course).

No. 1304035

>>1304030
lol who the fuck remembers old Onision blogs except Onision

No. 1304041

>>1303913
>A lot of people (including some women) don’t wash their hands after using the restroom which shocked me.
Same thing in Japan. In many public restrooms outside there's no soap whatsoever so you better have your own hand gel. When there's soap, like in some train station's restrooms or in restaurants, I was usually the only one washing my hands with soap, while other women were taking massive shits and just rinsing their fingertips after that. And then they'd put on makeup with their dirty hands. My friends in Japan confirmed that they saw that too. I wonder if it's a regional thing now.

No. 1304058

>>1303913
Nonna is a copefag because i assure you, anyone nonkorean will be treated equally shitty.

No. 1304140

>>1302496
I'd feel safer visiting North Korea than South Korea

No. 1304165

agree with the hotels and spycams thing. there was a case in korea where someone barged into a hotel room and raped a customer. the sentences on sex crimes there are so lax i dont know how anyone can feel safe. the news about women wanting to move to south korea and japan because of dramas is so baffling i just cant. how do they not distinguish between fiction and reality?

No. 1304166

I didn't have problems with harassment in Seoul but I was there only for one week. I also did not go partying/clubbing, usually would be home by 10 PM and always had my travel companions with me. I am not a Koreaboo but I did watch two Korean dramas before visiting so based on what I have seen, I expected it be Japan-lite. However:
1) Seoul and I guess SK in general is much more dirtier than expected. Streets are dirty and trash is overflowing. Dirty tables in restaurants, dirty floors and so on.
2) PLUMBING! You can't flush toilet paper otherwise toilet will clog. You have to throw dirty toilet paper in the bin which is disgusting because it smells so bad. We managed to find some special flushable toilet paper in a convenience store, it was more expensive but I just could not deal with throwing toilet paper in a bin instead of flushing it.
3) Random people do tend to be rude. Old women will push you to get out of their way even though the street is wide enough they could just go around you. Random people will scoff at you. If you go to a shop that is not in a touristy area, even cashiers might give you death glare lol

But with these negative sides my experience was mostly a positive one. We met some really kind people, there are many interesting museums (and tickets are quite cheap), interesting restaurants and also visitng NK border was quite an experience as well.

So just don't expect it to be the same it is portrayed in Korean Wave media. IMO it is still a developing country (yeah I know it is considered developed but the development was so fast that I feel that their people's mentality just didn't have the time to catch up.) Many people are still very conservative and Confucianism still so strong that is why there are many shitty scrotes around - they are being enabled by their culture unfortunately.

No. 1304186

>>1304166
hey can you tell me about your shopping experince because korea has some really good stores with nice and trendy fashion, the even sell clothes that kpop idols would wear (especially hongdae) did you see those type of stores.

No. 1304253

>>1304186
Yeah there are many of those in Hongdae and Insadong. I can't pin-point exact ones as I visited back in 2016 and couldn't read Korean lol but they should be easy to find.

No. 1304269

>>1302444
>What you seen in k-dramas is just a localization of romance
From what I've heard, a lot of k-dramas and Asian dramas in general are full of romanticized misogyny and abuse too (more blatant than in the west)

No. 1304289

>>1303913
>>1304041
>I was usually the only one washing my hands with soap…and then they'd put on makeup with their dirty hands

Jesus christ, WHAT. I dont know why, I always imagined the general public in Japan and Korea to be even more sanitary compared to the west

No. 1304294

>>1304041
I cannot believe this, that's so disgusting. No way a country known for ingenuity and convenience can't just install soap dispensers in public bathrooms.

No. 1304316

I remember reading a post (might have been on reddit?) written by an American girl who had moved to Korea for a teaching job. She was in her apartment laying in bed, about to drift off to sleep when she saw a flash of light right into her (second-floor) window, and then a second flash. Someone had CLIMBED UP TO THE SECOND FLOOR to take photos of her through her bedroom window. She went to the police because she was afraid of having a stalker, but of course nothing came of it.

No. 1304347

>>1302444
This is very indicative as so many k-dramas include scenes of men literally beating up women lol

No. 1304351

>>1304347
Aren’t most k dramas written by women? And for women? So sad.

No. 1304409

>>1304351
I feel like half of the k dramas I used to watch on Netflix depicted scenes of women just being smacked and kicked around by men while sitting there and taking it. Very weird trope.

No. 1304512

>>1304058
No kek that was literally my experience and what I've seen of mediocre white dudes who go to Korea as well. Of course people are generally rude af on the train and strangers will not want to deal with you since you can't speak Korean but Koreans that do have a conversation with you will always comment on your looks (and it's almost always about having a small head size).
>>1304186
NTA but I shopped in Korea and the quality of clothes there is pretty shit, I'd be wary of buying clothes there because for the most part it's all just aliexpress (I forget the Korean version's name) clothes bought wholesale and sold in various stores. You will see multiple stores selling the exact same item, even at stores within a big mall like COEX.
If I could go back I'd buy counterfeit designer items at Dongdaemun.

No. 1304735

This reminds me of a video i saw on youtube. This white guy was vlogging in korea and saw that what seemed a drugged out women being dragged into a car. You can see that in the vlog literally no one cared what happened except the foreign guy. All korean citizens just quickly walked past them. He tried to talk to them but they told him she was there friend. He didnt know what to do so went to the police but said in the comments that he was not sure if they actually did anything to help the girl.
Korean citizens really do not care about the wellbeing of women. Someone could get kidnapped or beat up in front of a whole group of citizens and they would just all ignore it and pass by.

No. 1304928

>>1304735
No, that happened in Japan, in one of the popular places (Shibuya?). I remember watching that vlog, too, but I can't find it anymore.
I think people in Japan are awy too afraid of "causing a scene" because it's "impolite", which is partially also the reason why Japanese women who are obviously uncomfortable being hit on are so polite to the scrotes who harass them.

No. 1319045

I have fallen down a rabbit hole of watching these clips from an older Korean show where people would be reunited with their families they were separated from during the Korean War. Some of the stories are super interesting but man it makes me a crying mess.

No. 1319048

>>1304928
nta but the japanese justice system is fucked, you're basically considered suspect or suspicious if you involve yourself in crimes you're not a part of. i once saw a video of surveillance footage of an idol drunk driving, who hit two pedestrians on a full street and a dozen people just walked off without even checking if they were okay. the two who were hit barely even communicated with eachother. it's fucked up. sage for ot but i just wanted to explain a different aspect of it.

No. 1319058

>>1319057
If you’re retarded enough to say all Asian men are 5’2 and cannot be tall or larger or overpowering you’re genuinely not worth interacting with. Victim blaming and babbling about how all she needs to do is some planks to defend herself against a man? You’re a dumb cunt
>white woman
As opposed to any other race of woman why?

No. 1319066

>>1319058
stop responding to obvious bait.

No. 1319073

>>1319066
Too bad I just did



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